There are academics who study self-sacrifice as a protest method. It's called "self-immolation" - immolation means "sacrifice." "Auto-cremation" means self-burning
"an act of self-immolation involves an individual intentionally killing [themselves] (or at least gambling with death) on behalf of a collective cause"
Michael Biggs, "Dying Without Killing: Self-Immolations, 1963–2002" in *Making Sense of Suicide Missions*, ed. Diego Gambetta,
Oxford University Press, 2005
https://users.ox.ac.uk/~sfos0060/immolation.pdf
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